Toking... you're very welcome! Yeah, my sis & nephews (she has a hearing son too) are fabulous human beings, & of course particularly precious to me. She does wear hearing aids, actually just one. For some reason one ear does fine with the aid, but the other is irritated (I guess it produces a weird sound or feedback that drives her crazy). Even with her hearing aid, she only has about 30% I think. You have to catch her eye to get her attention most of the time, unless you yell super loud.

She does sign, as I mentioned, but out in the world she has to rely mostly on lipreading & trying to hear, because most people don't sign. And of course she can get interpreters, but she's so damned independent that she usually prefers to just do her own thing. When all else fails, there's always pen & paper. I've noticed that many deaf & hearing impaired people, & people close to them, are extremely expressive with facial & body language... much more animated than many people. I love that! I think being high can make you more receptive to everything around you, hence food being so yummy & tv so interesting, lol. So it makes sense that perceptions of people could be increased as well. Imho, being high doesn't necessarily increase the actual amount of sound you hear, but it makes you better at reading people & discerning their non-verbal communication. Make sense? That's how it feels to me in my experience.